Interest from municipal bonds is exempt from federal income tax. Interest from Treasury bills, notes and bonds is exempt from state income taxes. Other forms of interest income is taxable as regular income. Interest paid by corporations to bondholders is a tax-deductible expense to the corporation.
VERA: Season 4. Airs Fridays, July 31, Aug. 7 & 28 & Sept. 4, 2015 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV. Above: Multi-award-winning actress Brenda Blethyn as DCI Vera Stanhope, and David Leon as Sergeant Joe Ashworth in the fourth season of VERA.
Vera Ellen Wang was born and raised in New York City, and is of Chinese descent. Her parents were born in China, and came to the United States in the mid-1940s. Her mother, Florence Wu, worked as a translator for the United Nations, while her father, Cheng Ching Wang, owned a medicine company. Wang has one younger brother, Kenneth.